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The Anti-Modi Christian Agenda
“Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see” is a line from a famous song. Some people have all the luck – they actually live that line in bliss. There are those who defend Leslee Undwin’s documentary under freedom of expression without thinking about the sinister motive of the then Congress govt and the film-maker and her funders and her violation of many agreed terms. They forget, the same govt had threatened and bullied a TV series called Crime Patrol over making an episode on Nirbhaya. The producers even received threats on the phone. But the Congress govt was happy to allow Udwin right into Tihar jail, have a loverly chat with the rapists and use the soundbites from one to tar an entire country – the target obviously being tarring Hindu culture as one of “rapists”. For the benefit of the ignorant ones, the whole operation of the documentary with the covert operators behind it is detailed in this Storified page.
Udwin’s documentary was given permission to film in July 2013 and one has to wonder why it took two years to make and why release it only recently around Women’s Day this year. Had it been released prior to May 2014 I doubt Congress would have got 44 seats even. But Udwin’s documentary is just one small part of a diabolical Christian onslaught on the ModiSarkar. Foreign terrorists often operate with local accomplices. This Christian hitjob by Udwin & Co did have their Christian accomplices in Delhi – NDTV:
The reward for NDTV was to do a world premiere of this Christian filth. BBC-4 carried it though. In my post “The 11th hour’’ I had mentioned how desperate attempts were being made by the Chrislamists to stop Narendra Modi from becoming PM. They had realised by then that the prospect was imminent. Christian bigot John Dayal was with his bigot-counterparts in the US Congress still trying to retain the ban on Modi’s US travel. The stupid principal of St Xavier’s Mumbai was writing emails to his students with an implicit message to not vote BJP. A host of other dubious Fiberals were writing open letters in newspapers to keep the BJP out. Unfortunately for them, the inevitable happened. The Christian regime of Sonia Gandhi was thrashed in the LS elections. It forced AK Antony to admit Congress is perceived as “anti-Hindu”. He makes just one error, it’s not a perception – Congress under Sonia was indeed anti-Hindu and Congress has always been so.
I call the SoniaG regime a Christian-regime. Under her hundreds of dubious NGOs with a Christian agenda set up shop, got huge funds from abroad and the conversion-factory witnessed a boom. Most of these NGOs were funded by the same covert ops specialists that funded Udwin’s documentary. The late YSR more or less created “industrial zones” for these conversion factories as his state hosted the biggest operators from the industry. The Sonia-Christian regime had support from all the Christian lobbies from the West. In India, the Commie media backed their operations for their covert war against Hindus and Hindu culture. It is the one religion or culture that the Chrislamists haven’t been able to destroy but it is WIP. Even stupid Hindus who are too blind to see these operations to destroy them blissfully live easy in misunderstanding. It took just a few days after ModiSarkar got in for the chaos and anarchy operators to start their war against Modi and his govt. The first being the concocted agitation against power cuts and power bills in Delhi. Considering this was nothing new and ModiSarkar was just in, these Western pimps had already started plotting his fall.
All you have to do is imagine that BJP had only 249 seats and 33 other coalition members in the govt and I guarantee this – the govt would have already faced a no-confidence motion in parliament. It would have faced such a motion every six months. It is just that BJP having 282 on its own makes that operation difficult to carry out. The situation for the Christian conversion-mafia aggravated after the govt choked funds to spurious NGOs sometime around August-September 2014 and I know this for a fact:
At the start of 2015 a few churches were vandalised and one was earlier gutted. That was another trigger to start off a “Christians under attack, Christians under attack” campaign. This was followed by a moronic “religious intolerance” comment by Barack Obama which the media comfortably used as another snub to the so-called “fringe” Hindu forces. Only a fool would believe Obama’s reference to the incident was an accident or out of any real concern. We don’t know who did it but chances are those opposed to Modi were the ones responsible. The media screamed “Christians under attack” again after a recent attack on a church at Mangalore. Turns out the attack was by a disgruntled employee (just like those who frequently slapped Arvind Kejriwal for which AAP conveniently blamed BJP). The professional agitators of AAP held another street agitation against the church attacks. Take that, more paint to the campaign of “Christians feel unsafe” under ModiSarkar.
Nothing is accidental about these events. These are all well-choreographed and scripted. There is just one problem. As usual, the lies are quickly spread but truth takes a while longer to come out. When the data on attacks on places of worship came out the attacks on churches were the least in number (not that any attack is justifiable). But like in the trading industry the smallest dealer makes the loudest noise. This data carried in IE should shame all the liars in the media and politics but it won’t. As always, LIE BIG, retract small – sometimes don’t even retract:
Church attacks were no better under the previous Christian regime of SoniaG but it is now being amplified as “Christians under attack, Christians under attack”. The Muslims are not so much into organised conversion as Christians except through marriage and are sizeable in India to carry out any campaign that their community demands or needs. In contrast, the Christians are a smaller percentage at 3 or 4. Therefore, their international accomplices in their agenda play a big part in tarring the Modi govt as anti-Christian. Thus, the Modi govt is being painted as anti-Christian even though he has indulged in appeasement of this community by meeting them and even taking personal interest in getting a Christian conversion-factory worker released from Afghanistan. These attacks are not going to stop soon. And our media runs to prominent Christians to vent their imaginary frustration very emotionally as this stupid headline from Indian Express from an Oped by Julio Ribeiro, a former decorated cop:
Really? Over what? The church attacks that were amplified, that Mother Teresa was exposed as a fake angel and GharWapsi. This is as sick as a silly old man can get. Talking emotional nonsense that will then get tom-tomed by our media mafia to further tar the Modi govt and portray Hindus as fascists who want to destroy Christians. He feels a stranger in his own country. Don’t forget the silly morons who wanted to leave India if Modi became PM. Don’t forget the bimbo who said she has a small child and how could she live in India if Modi became PM. All these calamity-mongers are the biggest scumbags – some willing and some merely stupid. You would wonder why otherwise sensible Hindus (at least those with Hindu names) fall for this stupidity. Just look at the Brown slave Ashutosh Varshney. This Barkha-sidekick whines for what Ribeiro writes without the slightest concern for facts. They whine because their money comes from the guys who further the Christian agenda.
The Fiberal writers and other sundry activists of the Hindu variety also do the same to further the Christian agenda because their publishers, their money and the awards they value and the junkets they are sponsored to, all come from the same Christian fountain. The few RW journalists will also not speak out loud because their bread too is buttered indirectly by the same mafia. That is how SoniaG built her vast coterie. As soon as he realised the folly of the nonsense he had written, Ribeiro had to admit he had chewed the very hand that fed him all of his 86 years. He admitted to a channel that he had exaggerated his crap which bigger morons like Varshney easily buy and so do many stupid Fiberal Hindus. The loss of 10 years of unhindered Christian agenda peddling is starting to take a toll and therefore this campaign. There are two joint signature themes to this campaign:
“Modi is anti-minority and
India is unsafe for women under BJP”
There, the theme has been established and it will continue to hog headlines with fake news or incidents amplified to disproportionate levels right through the next few years. Don’t look too far. The pimps at NDTV wasted no time in exploiting the Udwin documentary and anti-women theme during an interactive session with Christian Lagarde of the IMF. A dumb girl, cleverly tutored by NDTV (and probably a future anchor for them), asked the IMF head this question on March 16:
And these are the bimbos who are hand-picked by NDTV with tutored questions which shock and are laughed at even by the guest on the show. Now, I can understand somewhat if that tutored-bimbo had asked if women will be left behind but her royal dumbness was made to ask if growth will be only for “Hindu males”. At least C5M Sagarika was kinder; she said all Indian males are ugly. So, it is not just men according to NDTV pimps but it only Hindu men who will benefit from Modi govt’s policies. What pigs formulate such tactics if not for anti-Hindu Christians? If this is the sample of an educated woman in Delhi who keeps track of growth, politics or media then she comes from the dumbest of samples. This is because Modi’s record in Gujarat and at the Centre shows a strong (desirable) bias towards growth of women (even campaigns like Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao). Modi was CM of a state where women never experience fears and move freely even in late hours in the night. Women visitors to the state have acknowledged this.
There is worse; some spokie for the Bengal convent said on NDTV on March 17 the rapists at Nadia school vandalised the church and that it was part of the “GharWapsi” program. GharWapsi is done through rapes and church attacks? What kind of extreme anti-Hindu bitching is going on here? But the Christian mafia’s campaign is not based on facts or truth as any propaganda is unlikely to be. The international mafia then picks up the thread as Reuters does here:
Christians say? Which Christians? The pimps from NDTV? Or anti-national pigs like John Dayal? Or that Father Emmanuel who said the concept of “Karma” that Hindus believe in is all nonsense? Conveniently quote some stray quack and claim the headline. Now what was Reuters on about? It was about a 72-year old nun raped in Bengal recently. This is not a stray rape that has happened in Bengal under Mamata Banerjee. There have been quite a few before and some rapes ending in murders too. And when law and order is a state matter why is Modi responsible for a rape in Bengal? Media mafia’s campaign will take anything they get to target Modi. But you just got lucky! An Archbishop straight from Zombieland established the “Supreme Court of Jesus Against Modi” and delivered the following ruling:
Here’s the best part which most media morons have conveniently ignored or probably covered up. If rape happens in a school our media trashes the school authorities and holds them responsible. If in an office they hold the company management responsible. They even find out if the companies had instituted a Committee to hear SH complaints mandated by the SC. What happened in Nadia, Bengal? Here’s what:
The rape happened inside the premises? Why isn’t that Archbishop responsible if he is the management? Why isn’t the person running the school responsible? Whose is the head that should roll first? But no! According to this anti-Hindu preacher, none of the in-house management is responsible or accountable, the State CM is not responsible butsomeone miles away is inciting rapes inside the school’s premises? How sick is this man? Are these bishops and priests really serious about their churches? Aren’t there churches full of rapists and pedophiles? What makes these people so holy? Here’s ahorrendous story about filthy priests and tortured nuns – a true story. This is in Kerala. What these bishops mean is they are free to rape inside their church and Jesus allows that?
Considering the frequent sexual offences in churches and their other outlets why shouldn’t churches also be asked to form Sexual offence committees mandated by the SC? But that’s a logical question and their agenda is not based on logic – it’s based on hate-mongering against this BJP govt and against Hindus in general.
I have said many times and also written on this site that politics in India is not really left wing or right wing politics. Our politics is really Chrislamists Vs Hindus. The Christian mafia’s agenda here is to tar the Modi govt while their political accomplices will agitate to ensure no major bills are passed in the parliament; especially not the anti-conversion bill which they dread. Their media accomplices will constantly drum up bogus issues and blow up minor issues to portray Modi as a demon who is anti-minority and BJP is anti-women. That is the social aspect. Politically, they will paint Modi as anti-farmer and anti-poor as they have been doing all along. They will deviously portray him as causing social strife and disharmony. They will also use non-regular participants like Ribeiro as useful idiots. All the good work by ModiSarkar will be blacked out or receive token mentions (TOI recently even blacked out Modi’s visit to Sri Lanka).
The Christian agenda is to throw out the BJP govt if possible or to at least ensure it doesn’t win more states and 2019. It is for Hindus to understand this vicious, organised mafia and not fall for the Christian agenda – domestic and international.
MediaCrooks: The Anti-Modi Christian Agenda
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Mar 18, 2015
Destructive speculation (read: rumor) is cheap in India, it abounds everywhere against everyone, it is common even among the educated classes.
The only solution is for all Indians and foreigners to become adherents to the principle of habeus corpus with respect to the more suspect claims from India.
They are free to blame anyone and everyone they choose, hindus bjp illuminati whatever, for all the troubles they face. This goes for anyone.
We only need to remind everyone, Indians and foreigners, that without evidence, claims are just opinion and not fact.
If there is evidence that BJP politicians enacted (or refused) any policy or released any statement (official or otherwise) or pardoned any crime or expressly supported any platform, and this was done with an element of intent to enable activity that would otherwise be considered criminal, then let their detractors make public all the evidence of that.
If it is convincing beyond reasonable doubt, then BJP should be expected to explain themselves. Otherwise, rape is the fault of... the rapist. India is a democracy. It should not be convincing to say by itself "the act of being voted into office was the crime".
Regardless, if pressed for such a quality of evidence, the likely response will not be to present it, but rather to adopt the platform that Catholics face an ultimately existential threat in India, and that alone is enough to be suspicious of the motives of their host because no risk of malicious intent is tolerable to such an embattled community.
I'll be fair and say I kind of get the logic there. The idea being that, once in a while make an example of someone, Modi for example, just to keep everyone on their toes, given that they are supposedly in such a precarious position that they can't risk requiring the same quality of evidence of being wronged as more established communities.
Still, this seems unlikely given that Hinduism has never had any doctrine provisioning followers to antagonize minority faiths, and that the rate of population growth of Christians relative to the national average has been slightly greater as per recent census data (22.6% vs. 22.0% between 2001 thru 2011). Whatever is going on, they are certainly not going extinct more than any other community their size in India.
My suggestion to them, and all communities, is to do a better job at self-reflection, recognize paranoia. There are plenty of issues that warrant greater attention from them. For the record there are crusades of BJP I also find suspect esp. with regard to censorship.
indiandefence.com/threads/the-anti-modi-christian-agenda.53516/
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India targets Western, Christian groups at odds with Hinduism
By Siddhant Mohan - Special to The Washington Times - - Wednesday, January 27, 2016
VARANASI, India — A crackdown on private activist groups, especially Western and Christian organizations, has many here worried that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is selectively targeting organizations that don’t fit into his nationalist vision of India emphasizing Hinduism.
In the most notable instance, Greenpeace India is fighting for its survival in Indian courts after the government seizure of its accounts and temporary withdrawal of its license last year. The government said the organization was receiving foreign funds illegally.
An appeals court has allowed the Indian chapter of the environmental nongovernmental organization to remain open until a judge hears arguments in the case. In the meantime, Greenpeace India is limping along without funds from its international headquarters.
Vinuta Gopal, who stepped down as Greenpeace India’s interim executive director Jan. 20, said Mr. Modi’s regulators were targeting her group because of its advocacy for sustainable development that countered the prime minister’s relentless push for economic growth and support for business.
“The Home Ministry’s clumsy tactics to suppress free speech and dissenting voices are turning into a major national and international embarrassment for this government,” said Ms. Gopal. “This is an extension of the deep intolerance for differing viewpoints that sections of this government seem to harbor.”
Occupying an uneasy space between the state and individual voters, nongovernmental organizations that deal with hot-button issues including the environment, mining, ethnic rights and democracy-building have found themselves in the crosshairs in countries such as China and Russia.
Even Israel is facing heat from the Obama administration and American Jewish groups over a bill in the Knesset that would require nongovernmental organizations funded by foreign governments to label themselves as such in official meetings and in official reports. Critics of the bill in Israel and the U.S. say it amounts to a backdoor attempt to silence criticism of the government over its treatment of Palestinians and Israel’s Arab minority.
Greenpeace India is one of the five high-profile NGOs — including the United Theological College and the Salve Regina Charitable Trust, both based in Bangalore — whose operations have come under fire during Mr. Modi’s 1-year old tenure in office. Elected on a platform of reforming India’s notoriously backward business sector, the 65-year-old prime minister has also pursued a forceful agenda to promote Hindu values in a massive, diverse country that is around 80 percent Hindu but officially a secular democracy.
It didn’t start with the current government. Mr. Modi’s predecessors stopped foreign funding for almost 8,700 NGOs under a 2010 law that sought to reduce outside influence in the country, especially when it was linked to religious organizations that lawmakers feared could foment interfaith strife.
But Mr. Modi is now targeting popular groups that have long operated legally in India, a shift that NGO representatives say reflects his agenda to curtail non-Hindu groups.
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“For sure, Hindu radical forces seek revenge on minorities,” said Lenin Raghuvanshi, founder of the People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights.
He acknowledged that foreign NGOs can be badly managed, sometimes deliberately so. “That’s why they disturb those whose agenda goes against their ideology,” he said.
The Indian government recently shut down the Kerala-based Catholic Charismatic Renewal Services — one of the five high-profile groups under fire — because the group reportedly failed to pay its annual income tax. But analysts say its real offense was maintaining popular social welfare programs in the spirit of a Western faith, said John Dayal, general secretary of All India Christian Council and member of National Integration Council, a government advisory board on religious and ethnic tolerance.
Selective targeting
Plenty of NGOs in India’s corruption-riddled economy maintain shoddy accounting practices, said Mr. Dayal, but officials in Mr. Modi’s government are selective in which ones they target.
“If a Christian or minority organization is working peacefully, the government tends to disrupt that peace,” said Mr. Dayal. “It is evident that many of the organizations do not pay taxes. But why specifically target those who are working for social welfare?”
The Indian Ministry of Home Affairs did not respond to requests for comment.
Last year, regulators from the ministry sought to close the United Theological College on charges of tax evasion and financial mismanagement, as well as engaging in political activity by encouraging students to protest a steel mill project that was displacing local villagers. College administrators have appealed that move and are awaiting a final decision about their fate.
John Samuel Raj, principal of the college, denied that he or other administrators encouraged students to protest but defended the students’ right to free speech and to demonstrate.
“We provide a free and socially aware platform to our students,” said Mr. Raj. “We never stop them going to protests.”
The government has also targeted Indian NGOs caught up in religious controversies. Indian Finance Ministry officials raided and closed down the high-profile Sabrang Trust for six months in September on charges that the group failed to file taxes and misspent donations. But Teesta Setalvad, the trust’s director who was arrested and nearly jailed before posting bail, said the government’s moves are revenge for her key role in filing petitions in Indian courts that led to investigations into the Gujarat riots of 2002.
More than 1,000 Muslims died during the riots, which erupted while Mr. Modi was chief minister of the state of Gujarat. The episode has long been a stain on his political record.
Ms. Setalvad’s petitions helped reveal that Mr. Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party helped provoke the riots.
Ms. Setalvad declined to be quoted because she didn’t want to harm her chances in her pending court case.
Meanwhile, the government hasn’t investigated or suspended the license of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, a controversial Hindu volunteer organization that is widely viewed as the ideological wing of Mr. Modi’s ruling party.
Regarded as the biggest NGO in India, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh receives foreign funds but doesn’t have a bank account in India, according to numerous Indian media outlets whose reports the group has never denied. The government has not audited the organization. The group has performed forced conversions of Muslims to Hinduism and other practices that have garnered intense criticism and stirred religious tensions in India.
“Why has the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh not been monitored for funding?” asked Mr. Raghuvanshi. “Its profile and agenda are more dubious than any other organization. It sure is discriminatory.”
The government also has yet to move against the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, a radical Hindu organization responsible for the destruction of the Babri Mosque in northern India in 1992 and other incidents that have led to violence, Mr. Dayal said.
“These organizations have not been registered,” he said. “They are running freely and with the backing of government.”
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh district leader Sushil Kumar Sharma defended his group by saying his volunteers benefit India whereas the others undermine steps Mr. Modi is taking to improve the country.
“These NGOs take money from foreigners to conduct anti-national activities in India,” he said. “They don’t care of India’s place in the world. Modi is right in taking these steps. No one should have the right to operate in India if it tarnishes Modi’s development agenda in the outside world.”
Anil Chaudhary, an economist and adviser to the Indian Social Action Forum, a human rights organization, said attitudes like Mr. Sharma’s illustrate Mr. Modi’s stance toward NGOs.
“The government has a [hypocritical] policy,” said Mr. Chaudhary. “They have no issues with various foreign contributors investing in India for business purposes, but those who donate to NGOs annoy the government.”
m.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jan/27/narendra-modi-selectively-targeting-western-christ/
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India: Church leaders fear government's 'anti-Christian agenda'
Church leaders have accused the Indian government of an anti-Christian agenda following a move to reassess the minority status given to some schools.
Persecution charity Open Doors has ranked India as 17th in its list of countries where Christians' lives are most endangered.Reuters
Christians in Madhya Pradesh are concerned that Hindu hardliners will be given freedom to harass missionary schools under new recommendations by the state's minority commission.
Secretary of the commission, Nisar Ahmed, told UCA News that some "undeserving private schools" are using a law that exempts minority schools from needing to provide 25 per cent of their places to local poor students.
They have unlawfully secured minority certificates to avoid the rule, Ahmed said.
The commission has recommended that all schools currently registered as minority-run in Madhya Pradesh be reassessed.
However, church leaders have warned this may be a move by the government to undercut protections currently awarded to minority groups, including Christians, Muslims and Sikhs.
Father Maria Stephen, spokesman for the regional bishops' council, told UCA News the recommendation was "highly disappointing".
"The minority commission is meant for protecting and promoting the welfare of the minority institutions but by this move it has failed to do its duty," he said.
Christian leaders were not told of the recommendation before it was announced, he added.
The Hindu nationalist ideology espoused by the ruling BJP party and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a right-wing combination of social movement and paramilitary group, has led to hostility toward Christians in some areas of India.
https://www.christiantoday.com/article/india.church.leaders.fear.governments.anti.christian.agenda/84255.htm
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Uncertain future for Indian Christians after BJP’s election victories
March 22, 2017
By World Watch Monitor India
Anti-Conversion Law, BJP, Catholic, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Hindu nationalism, India, Madhya Pradesh, Manipur, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand
India’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) seems to have consolidated its political position across India after the party won several state elections. These were held in February and March; after results were counted in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Goa and Manipur, it had secured a comfortable majority in India’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, while achieving more dominance in other states, despite fears that the recent ban on currency would affect the ruling party’s fortunes.
In Uttar Pradesh, the BJP won 225 of the 403 seats, while also achieving an overwhelming majority in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand: 56 out of 70 seats. It also made an impressive performance in Goa and Manipur. Athough it did not win either state, it will be likely to form a government there. As a result, sixty-five percent of the Indian population now has come under BJP government, both at union and state level.
This success of BJP enables it to install a President of its own choice, elected in June 2017, after the present President Pranab Mukherjee, completes his term.
For minority groups this is not necessarily good news. In the run up to the elections there were reports of an increase in violence, especially against Christians. According to a report published by the Mumbai-based Catholic Secular Forum,
( More Christians being attacked in poll-bound states, claims NGO report
m.hindustantimes.com/assembly-elections/more-christians-being-attacked-in-poll-bound-states-claims-ngo-report/story-KchSsTodL4iRmut4syUJMM.html )
‘Indian Christian Persecution’, some 12,000 Christians experienced persecution in 2016 including murder,
( 'Little hope for justice' for India's persecuted Christians
www.heraldmalaysia.com/news/little-hope-for-justice-for-indias-persecuted-christians/34447/1 )
detention, assault, rape
( Police rapes, acquittals and false accusations highlight Christians’ vulnerability in India
https://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/2017/01/police-rapes-acquittals-and-false-accusations-highlight-christians-vulnerability-in-india/ )
and harassment.
( Manipur Christians warned off celebrating Christmas
https://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/2016/12/manipur-christians-warned-off-celebrating-christmas/ )
Uttar Pradesh registered an almost three-fold increase in cases of harassment of and attacks on Christians (less than 1% of India’s most populous and politically crucial state, where some 80 percent are Hindus). The report said similar spikes were witnessed in Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur.
As for Goa, a former Portuguese colony, the election result turned out a little surprisingly. Despite fear that Catholics here would see their once decisive political edge plummet,
( Catholics' political clout wanes in Goa
www.ucanews.com/news/catholics-political-clout-wanes-in-goa/78222 )
the Indian coastal state elected the highest number of Catholic lawmakers since state polls were first held in 1963,
( Record number of Catholics elected in Goa elections
www.ucanews.com/news/record-number-of-catholics-elected-in-goa-elections/78648 )
UCA News reported. Seven of the 13 BJP members elected are Catholics and, for the first time in the state, they outnumber Hindu legislators in a party. The expectation, however, is little will change in terms of policies as, according to political observer Aureliano Fernandes,
( Record number of Catholics elected in Goa elections
www.ucanews.com/news/record-number-of-catholics-elected-in-goa-elections/78648 )
“there is hardly any internal democracy in the BJP unlike other parties”.
Hindu-only India
Perhaps no change within the BJP party; observers, however expect that the results will embolden the party to even more vigorously pursue its Hindu nationalist agenda,
( India’s religious freedom failings ‘enshrined in constitution’
https://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/2017/02/indias-religious-freedom-failings-enshrined-in-constitution/ )
increasing the pressure on minority groups. With a stronger representation in the upper house, the BJP-led government could be in position to introduce laws to enact an “anti-conversion law” (already proposed) at the national level.
( Indian Parliamentarians propose ban on conversions
https://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/2015/10/indian-parliamentarians-propose-ban-on-conversions/ )
Currently five states already have an anti-conversion law in place: Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh.
In Chhattisgarh state it was reported
( Another Village in India Passes Resolution Banning Practice of Non-Hindu Faiths
www.persecution.org/2017/02/24/another-village-in-india-passes-resolution-banning-practice-of-non-hindu-faiths/ )
in February that a village council in Benje village passed a resolution banning the practice of non-Hindu faiths, essentially deeming Christianity illegal. This resolution was passed despite a decision by the High Court of Chhattisgarh
( Indian court provides ‘minor relief’ from ban on Christianity
https://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/2015/10/indian-court-provides-minor-relief-from-ban-on-christianity/ )
overturning similar resolutions.
The Catholic Secular Forum says that the pro-Hindu federal government ignores the problem. Its secretary Joseph Dias explains that since the BJP came to power in 2014, pro-Hindu groups have stepped up their campaign to create a Hindu-only India,
( What next for India’s beleaguered Christian minority?
https://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/2016/09/what-next-for-indias-beleaguered-christian-minority/ )
which has resulted in increasing incidents of violence against Christians. “The concern is not about the BJP’s political gain but its silence. The BJP government has been silent on various fringe elements and right-wing forces acting against Christians.”
Promoting dialogue
Most attacks on priests and community leaders have occurred due to accusations of attempting to convert Hindus to Christianity. Top Hindu leaders publicly accused Christians, including Mother Teresa of Calcutta, of working to convert Hindus, which they say destroys Hindu culture and destabilizes society. Several Hindu organisations have conducted a “homecoming” of such people.
( 76 Christians reconverted to Hinduism in India
https://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/coe/76-christians-reconverted-to-hinduism-in-india/ )
However, the Forum’s secretary also blamed the Indian Church for not taking a strong stand against atrocities. “The Church has to serve as a catalyst not only to bring all the Christian groups, rites and denominations together but also to promote inter-religious dialogue. It has failed on this front.”
( https://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/2017/03/uncertain-future-indian-christians-bjps-election-victories/ )
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